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Well, well, well. What can I say about this one!? For starters, I cannot believe that it was 13 years ago that American Pie first hit our screens! Wow now even I feel old. Then we had American Pie 2, followed by American Wedding. And now American Pie THE REUNION – Could this prove to be the biggest hit yet?

American Pie came to us about a bunch of teenagers who wanted to loose their virginity – simple right? And so the quest went on and 13 YEARS LATER! We have them all reunited again, but this time its different…

So lets start with he cast – You have Jason Biggs who plays Jim Levenstein, famous for his YouTube clip that went viral – in a bad way! Then you have Jim’s onscreen lover Alyson Hannigan who plays Michelle famous for her musical talent in playing the flute! And not forgetting Seann William Scott who plays the infamous Steve or better known as Stifler! This trio alone manage to get your belly laughing, without mentioning the other members of the cast!

With the return to East Great Falls, Michigan the class of 99 plan to meet up for their high school reunion. All will be revealed to each other and how their lifestyles have changed over the years. Once these bunch of teenagers set out for any girl/guy in sight, but now all grown up, there are marriages and kids to juggle. Just what will come in the way of as they try to be sensible about their actions. Erm did I say sensible! Minus stifler of course, oh and pretty much every other character!

You are defiantly in for a treat for this warm apple pie – A must see for any teenager and grown up who helped start the craze of phrases like ‘MILF’ !!

It’s probably true that, in one way or another, everything I do today started out with comics. It was my simultaneous introduction to the visual arts and storytelling at a very young age. I started out with The Beano and The Dandy (do they still make those comics? Let me know) and very quickly progressed to Superhero comics like Spiderman, Alpha Flight and the Avengers (I was always a Marvel man, for those who understand the significance) and there I found my comfort zone for many many years.

I used read comics more than I ever read books, much to the dismay of my parents, and the rush I got from them is what I look for now when it

comes to movies, regardless of their origins. Today, reading comics all day wouldn’t seem like the ‘waste of time’ it did back then. Most parents nowadays would be happy to see their kids reading anything rather than spending another 16 hours without toilet breaks playing Call of Duty. Comics grew into graphic novels and out of that came a multi billion dollar genre for movies all of its own, and provided the inspiration for many more beyond that – eg, did you know that RED, the extremely underrated 2010 action/comedy starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren was adapted from a graphic novel? Just because it’s not dressed in a cape and shooting lasers out of its eyes doesn’t mean your entertainment fix hasn’t been harvested from the fertile comic paddy fields.